Articles filed under Commentary
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Giving dead a day helps ease pain and celebrate the lifeOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - This past Friday would have been Jack Mabley's 92nd birthday. He died on Jan. 7 of last year. I miss him and still keep his Daily Herald nameplate in my cubicle to make ...
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Frightening threat to taxpayers on the eve of HalloweenOct 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Just in time for Halloween comes House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel -- henceforth known as Count Rangula -- with a bill that would suck more blood fr...
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A student candidate spending over $100? We can't have thatOct 25, 2007 11:00 pm - The speech policeman's lot is not a happy one, as the University of Montana at Missoula is learning. Herewith a tale about the mess that institution has made by regulati...
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Sometimes, news and rumors of news carry equal pressureOct 24, 2007 11:00 pm - In the end, readers will judge for themselves both the truth of what authorities say and the merits of what they don't. In an ideal world, rumors would never figure into...
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Points that should have been raised with Mexico's presidentOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - It was excruciating to watch Vicente Fox tangle with Bill O'Reilly as part of the media tour for the former Mexican president's engaging memoir, "Revolution of Hope." Th...
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Giuliani's position on Iran shows he hasn't learned from IraqOct 23, 2007 11:00 pm - I have a weakness for wars with colorful names. My favorite is the War of Jenkins' Ear, which occupied Britain and Spain from 1739-41 and ended in a stalemate. This brin...
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Warning of a terrorist nuclear attack that must be taken seriouslyOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is paid to think about the unthinkable. As the Energy Department's director of intelligence, he's responsible for gathering information about the thr...
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Bad news for Democrats counting on U.S. defeat in IraqOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - Last week, ABC's Charles Gibson introduced a segment about Iraq on "World News Tonight" with this curious remark: "The news is (pause for effect) that there is no news. ...
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Proposed cuts in energy help could have chilling effectOct 22, 2007 11:00 pm - President Bush's veto of that SCHIP children's health insurance bill has critics complaining that poor kids are going to be left in the cold. That charge takes on a lite...
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Pelosi could not be less serious about foreign policyOct 21, 2007 11:00 pm - There are three relevant questions concerning the Armenian genocide. (a) Did it happen? (b) Should the U.S. House of Representatives be expressing itself on this now? (c...